I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

We are a product of the choices we make, not the circumstances that we face.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

I don't advise kids to do what I do. I'm just doing me. I just smoke a little weed and do a little drink.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.